The Conduct of LifeDiscusses the ultimate ethical and religious issues that confront modern man and offers a new orientation, directed to the renewal of life and the reintegration of modern civilization. -- Publisher's description. |
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In his attempt to associate intelligence with the special faculty for dealing with the geometrical , the mechanical , the non - living , Henri Bergson curiously underestimated the formative effect of language and over - stressed the ...
In his attempt to associate intelligence with the special faculty for dealing with the geometrical , the mechanical , the non - living , Henri Bergson curiously underestimated the formative effect of language and over - stressed the ...
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Our ingenious mechanical methods of solving this problem , like the invention of the microfilm , increase the size of the total burden : the only true salvation , in this and every other sphere , is voluntarily to restrict production at ...
Our ingenious mechanical methods of solving this problem , like the invention of the microfilm , increase the size of the total burden : the only true salvation , in this and every other sphere , is voluntarily to restrict production at ...
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... 55 Meat packers organizations , 269 Mechanical aids , and simplicity , 272 Mechanical order , 241 over - valuation of , 122 Mechanical progress , 7 Mechanism , 32 , 201 bias of , 35 and purpose , 132 331 semantic misinterpretation ...
... 55 Meat packers organizations , 269 Mechanical aids , and simplicity , 272 Mechanical order , 241 over - valuation of , 122 Mechanical progress , 7 Mechanism , 32 , 201 bias of , 35 and purpose , 132 331 semantic misinterpretation ...
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Contents
THE CHALLENGE TO RENEWAL | 3 |
ORIENTATION TO LIFE | 22 |
COSMOS AND PERSON | 58 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | The Conduct of Life Volume 34 of Harvest book Harvest book, HB 34 |
| Author | Lewis Mumford |
| Publisher | Harcourt, Brace, 1951 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 11 Jun 2008 |
| Length | 342 pages |
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